EMDR — Transforming Stress and Trauma
• Enhancing Performance
Bay Area
Certified EMDR Therapists in Bay Area
Oakland Counselor specializing in Addictions, Life Stress, Childhood Neglect and Abuse, Chemical Dependency, Dissociation, and Military Trauma and more...
286 Santa Clara Avenue
Oakland, CA Oakland 94610
Oakland, CA Oakland 94610
(510) 788-6110
Teresa Allen, MFT (MFC 39878)
Specialties: Addictions, Challenges ranging from everyday life Stress to Childhood Neglect and Abuse, Chemical Dependency, Dissociation, and Military Trauma."
Teresa Allen is an EMDR Therapist in Oakland and East Bay
Empathetic, Effective Therapy
EMDR work, for some people, can accomplish in a short time what used to take years of traditional talk therapy. Although it is not a miracle cure, EMDR has shown itself to be an extraordinary tool for recovery from trauma, including early developmental trauma from neglect and abuse. It is important to use EMDR in the correct phase of therapy, however. Sometimes an extended preparation period is very important. In this preparation period, learning to turn down the volume on strong feelings, or turn up the volume when you can't access ANY feelings, helps you feel comfortable and ready to start EMDR. Understanding how the creative device of dissociation may have helped you survive is also part of the preparation period for some people. Used correctly and in the right phase of therapy, EMDR can open up new paths to health and recovery.